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ProjectStrengthening Capacities to Improve Animal Health and Enhance Livestock Production in the Pacific Region - TCP/SAP/3802 2024
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No results found.Located in the southwestern part of the Pacific Rim of Fire and close to the equator, the Pacific region is among the most vulnerable in the world to the effects of climate change, extreme weather events and natural disasters. The region faces several region-wide challenges, including natural disasters and ecosystem degradation, a crucial need for livelihoods, and a population that is increasingly consuming imported, highly refined foods while local food production and consumption are declining, resulting in a potential public health and environmental crisis. National and regional priorities of the Pacific Island Countries (PICs) include building social and environmental resilience to the impacts of climate change and strengthening food security and nutrition, for which the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has played a key role in linking agriculture and health, strengthening interagency linkages and developing partnerships to promote sustainable expansion of production, trade and marketing of domestic agricultural products and healthy consumption of diverse, safe and nutritious diets. -
Book (stand-alone)Guidance for One Health field epidemiology mentorship
A supplemental manual to the Competencies for One Health field epidemiology (COHFE) framework
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No results found.This document was developed to assist field epidemiology training programmes in establishing mentorship programmes using a One Health approach.It describes core competencies for mentors that programmes can use in selecting and training field epidemiology mentors. The manual provides examples of existing mentor training programmes and provides guidance for training and evaluating mentors. In addition, the document describes mentor roles and responsibilities, benefits of mentoring for mentees, mentors and organizations, outlines the qualities of a good mentor, explores approaches to strengthen One Health mentoring in field epidemiology training programmes, and assesses the benefits and limitations of virtual mentoring. -
ProjectStrengthening Regional Capacities to Address Negative Impacts of COVID-19 on the Animal Health Sector in Africa - TCP/RAF/3801 2024
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Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 with its quick worldwide spread, which turned it into a global public health threat with over 6.9 million deaths, the impact that infectious diseases of animal origin can exert on global health and development with severe and long-term negative effects has become rapidly visible. The need to strengthen capacities to prevent, detect, and manage the likely transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and other emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases at animal, human and ecosystem interface turned into a global priority. Coronaviruses, which are known to infect mammals including different livestock species, are usually very specific to their host, but in the case of SARS-CoV-2, it is suspected to have originated in bats before spreading from human to human. While no evidence of circulation among livestock was collected, potential risks of spreading of SARS-CoV-2 through livestock could not be denied in the onset of the emergency. As of September 2023, the African continent had registered over 9.5 million reported cases and over 175 000 deaths, adding an additional burden on countries already suffering from poverty, unemployment, malnutrition and hunger. The animal health sector was assessed as being particularly vulnerable and requiring additional support to strengthen national prevention and response systems.
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